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openNo Title Anime
Hello,
I ran into this a couple of times and I wanted to know the site's official policy on this subject.
I know the official English spelling is just as viable as the Japanese spelling of a character's name and which one that is use is left up to the troper's preference. So, what do you do when someone goes on a purity edit, namely changing all the names on a page from the English spelling to the Japanese ones? The first couple of times this happened, I just PM the person who did it and told them that it was rude since the English spelling was just as viable as the Japanese and they had no right making such blanking changes. Recently, I changed the page back to its original form because someone went as far as changing the episodes titles to the Japanese titles, which I thought was going way too far.
For future dealings on this subject, how should I react? Should I just give P Ms like I have been doing or should I change the page back if it goes really too far?
openNo Title Anime
I'm trying to put in a quote on the Rin-ne Character sheet page, but I just can't figure out how to format it. I've tried reading the formatting rules, but I just can't get it to look right. If someone could help, that would be great. The quote is under "Failure is the Only Option" in Rinne's folder.
openNo Title Anime
Would using a work's promotional blurb fall under fair use as far as copyright goes?
I ask because this work's page had pretty much its entire description commented out for being a copyright infringement. Now, while I definitely think using the publisher's promotional blurb is sloppy work, I'm fairly certain it's covered by fair use and definitely better than nothing.
Without the commented out bits, the description said literally nothing about the plot, thus making it 100% useless as far as our mission goes.
openNo Title Anime
FAQ #5 of How to Create a Work's Page stated this wiki "prefer[s] to use the English titles where applicable." While I understand this guideline is not very strictly enforced in manga/anime (but I've seen articles moved before because of this), I'm now seeing a strange case here that I don't know this guideline is to be applied.
Kotoura-san is mostly known by English audiences by its 2013 anime, and the legal streaming site Crunchyroll kept its title as it is, and so does the Kindle-only manga translator. As a result, (IMO) the work doesn't have an officially-translated English title. The problem is today, NIS America announced they will license that anime after more than 2 years, and give it a translated title The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura.
Would this rename per se trigger the application of FAQ #5? To note: without the guideline I won't even consider making the redirect, as I believe that title won't get much currency.
openNo Title Anime
How do I deal with potentially copyright-infringing text?
Specifically, I noticed the lead of LightNovel.Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon contains large amounts of materials from Yen Press' blurb for the licensed novelnote Specifically paragraphs 2-5 of the lead is lifted completely from Volume 1's blurb. I am not knowledgeable with the work enough to re-author the lead, unfortunately.
openNo Title Anime
So I'm working on correcting namespaces to either Anime/ or VideoGame/ for Main.Sands Of Destruction, and Main.World Destruction is a current redirect to VideoGame.Sands Of Destruction. Apparently "World Destruction" is a literal translation of the Japanese title, but not an official English title. Can this be safely cutlisted (with 0 inbounds), or should a redirect for "World Destruction" be kept, only with the correct VideoGame/ namespace?
openNo Title Anime
I was trying to do an Japanese-to-English title migration from LightNovel.Ore No Nounai Sentakushi Ga Gakuen Love Come O Zenryoku De Jama Shiteiru to LightNovel.My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy but whenever I try to copy/paste the markup from one to the other, the English title page doesn't change. It still stays on a page saying
"We don't have an article named LightNovel/MyMentalChoicesAreCompletelyInterferingWithMySchoolRomanticComedy. If you want to start this new page, just click the edit button above. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes. Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. Use the right namespace for those."
Was the page previously cut or is it a page typing issue of some kind?
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title Anime
Okay, I've just completed a massive edit on YMMV.Doki Doki Precure. However, it has now left a ZCE in the form of {Shipping}}. The reason it's now a ZCE is because I relocated the YMMV items that were once underneath it due to being Example Indentation In Trope Lists. I was wondering if it's safe to remove the ZCE entry for Shipping since several other shipping tropes are present on the page. Or would it be better to just comment it out?
openNo Title Anime
I've been making it a little project of mine to migrate any Japanese-named manga, anime, or light novel series over to their official English names whenever they exist via places like Amazon, FUNimation, Crunchyroll, Hulu etc. There's one I've wanted to do that with for a while now, but not quite sure how to handle it due to some title overlap.
The series title of Manga.Nanatsu No Taizai translates to, and is marketed in English as, "The Seven Deadly Sins". Manga.The Seven Deadly Sins already exists as a redirect to Nanatsu.
Ordinarily a straightforward issue, but there is also a page titled Theatre.The Seven Deadly Sins. In terms of content, the Theater page has only itself, not even any examples and a blank YMMV page. It's in dire need of crosswicking at the very least.
Now the issue here is if I were to do the migration, do I just move everything, including sub-pages, over to Manga.The Seven Deadly Sins per normal, or should I do something special to make sure that there's as little overlap with the Theater page as possible?
I suppose what I'm asking is which page gets the priority?
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title Anime
I have a certain issue with the Fullmetal Alchemist example on Devil, but No God, it seems to miss the point of the trope, and seems to misunderstand the term "God" just to refer to the stereotypical "Kindly old man" figure that Christianity tends to present, when the term is actually a lot more broad then that, and Truth is acknowledged to be the God of the FMA universe. The example would be better in God and Satan Are Both Jerks.
I'd remove it myself, but I'd like to ask for a second opinion here before doing so.
So, what do you guys think? Should I remove it? Leave as it is? What?
Edited by SaintDeltoraopenNo Title Anime
Mitis went and violated Example Indentation all over the Anime and Manga section of This Is a Drill while alphabetizing it.
Edited by ryanasaurus0077openNo Title Anime
Do you think the girl on the right of this picture is wearing a corset? I think she is (and hence falls into Of Corsets Sexy), but what she wears doesn't look like a stereotypical one...
Edited by SamCurtopenNo Title Anime
Before I ask for a revert, I want to make sure, due to this being a US-written wiki, that the previous sentences(which would be reverted to) are correct.
For a quick example;
- Let's see... yeah.
- Let's see...yeah.
- Let's see ... yeah.
Which one of the 3 is correct? I know they aren't full sentences, but the key point is given for the overall grammar in this particular case. The edits that I linked to do nothing but remove the spaces of a tons of paragraphs(making it look like my second subbullet example). I highly doubt that's correct. A teacher I just asked I know said the 3rd example is proper. But she's from the United Kingdom, so the Wiki itself may do it differently.
openNo Title Anime
Not sure where to ask this, so I'm asking this here. I noticed some Conversation On The Main Page on the Arc Fatigue page, regarding Katekyo Hitman Reborn. I sent the editor who put it in a standard message on natter. But I know nothing about that manga, so I have no idea how to fix the example myself. Can anyone else fix it?
openNo Title Anime
I saw a possible edit war at Characters.Shirobako Main Characters, so I'm asking for some guidance: If a character's seiyuu does not have its own page on This Wiki, is it appropriate to pothole the seiyuu's name to the appropriate Anime News Network page?
openNo Title Anime
Okay I found Characters.Sega Hard Girls with no corresponding work or franchise page (this is related to Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls but the character page for that is rather short) I'm wondering if we should make a work pager for the former or merge the 2 pages under the name of the latter?
Edited by MorningStar1337openNo Title Anime
I think somebody needs to talk with maxravenclaw about his edits at YMMV.Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo.
Are Works and Creator pages supposed to be listed on a work's trope list? I'm asking this because Super Robot Wars and CLAMP are tropes for Code Geass
Edited by VenomLancerHae